As a Northerner living in Dublin, I sometimes I get weary with the way that the great bulk of news from Northern Ireland is ...

Ron Chernow has written biographies about great men before but in Mark Twain he tackled a larger than life character known ...

From his childhood, Samuel Clemens was devoted to showmanship, exaggeration and the joy of a tall tale.

Ron Chernow’s Mark Twain forces a similar conclusion about its subject: clearly an idiot, and a born sucker. This conclusion ...

Historian Ron Chernow’s latest work may surprise readers who know him best for the book which inspired the musical “Hamilton” ...

Mark Twain gave us inimitable characters such as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He was no less creative in styling himself as ...

Among his many aphorisms, Mark Twain is credited with this: “I didn’t have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.” Biographer Ron Chernow was evidently short on time ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. – In the heart of Hannibal, Missouri, the town that shaped a young Mark Twain, a quietly remarkable home invites visitors to step into the world of the beloved American storyteller.

Donation Options Search Search Search Biographer Ron Chernow, 76, said he found much to identify with Mark Twain ... But he (Twain) has a wonderful quote where he says that Teddy Roosevelt ...

Here’s his history with the festival Smokey Robinson’s lawyer says rape allegations against him are ‘vile’ and ‘false’ The 1,200-page “Mark ... he (Twain) has a wonderful quote ...